Non-null objects, the Null Object pattern, and T.init

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Saturday, 18 January 2014 at 00:44:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Big systems have to live with bugs, it is inevitable that they 
> run with bugs. Erlang was created for stuff like that. Can you 
> imagine a telephone central going down just because the 
> settings for one subscriber was wrong and triggered a bug?

Stupid me, that I thought that all this mess was solved decades 
ago with the CPU protected mode.
I tend to agree with Walter on this front.

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Paolo